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Themes in Blade Runner

Unnecessary fork from Blade Runner and excessive WP:NOR. Wikipedia is not a film studies course; we don’t need a series of extensive articles. Merge it into Blade Runner’s main article.BlueVelvet86 14:14, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete The article is a big collection of original research. Jay32183 18:55, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Keep I believe a good encyclopedic article on such an important movie should give details about the symbolism used. But giving all these info would overcrowd the main article. I think we should keep it as a separate article. We can work on referencing more, if people are worrying about the original research. There are several books and countless webpages about BR. -- þħɥʂıɕıʄʈʝɘɖı 19:07, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Too large to merge back into main article; one of a few films that merit study at the university level. Mandsford 13:38, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong keep. Highly notable film that inspired countless imitations, largely because of its thematic richness. If the page contains OR, then the parts which are OR should be deleted, not the entire article. It does, however, have a large number of sources, at least some of which are reliable, and should therefore be kept. JulesH 14:10, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • The entire article is OR. Jay32183 20:05, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong keep. It is articles such as this one that make Wikipedia useful to a wide segment of net users. The utility of OR material on Wikipedia has obviously been debated by many better writers earlier than this, but still if Wikipedia has a problem with articles containing OR than there could be some tag options that clearly segregates OR material for the reader, rather than the wholesale deletions of useful articles. User:dkholm 12:07, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought. Wholesale deletion of original research is a good thing, because it never should have been included in the first place. Jay32183 20:05, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete this article is almost entirely Original Research Corpx 19:40, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Delete It's an essay. Now, I'm not sure exactly what Wikipedia's policy is regarding the substitution of essays for articles (if there is in fact a policy, I'd be very interested to find out what it is), but the article does seem to violate WP:OR. The problem is that rather than presenting objective information, it presents a perspective on a subject. The perspective is debatable and strongly subject to interpretation, rather than reflecting an academic consensus. Calgary 23:56, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think pretty much ever line in the page would have to be cited from somewhere for it not to violate WP:OR Corpx 00:13, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Keep There are enough sources there to keep it from being rejected out of hand. It does need some work, I'd like to see more footnoting, but it is well written and represents a significant view in film studies. This seems to be the kind of article we want more of. If you want to delete some bad articles about fiction, check out some of the Family Guy or The Venture Bros. articles. Cheers. L0b0t 02:03, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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